Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1970-04-16

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VOL. 48, NO. 16
•APRIL 16, 1970 - NISAN 10
Passover, A Message Of Freedom For All
Passover is the oldest of Jewish festivals. It marks the birth of the Jewish people. Its Sabbath and Festival prayers are in memory of the Exodus from Egypt. Its impact on Jewish history stamps it as the supreme event in the ex¬ perience 6f Israel. -¦
The ceremonies of the breaking and the eating of the unleavened bread and the drinking of the four cups of wines , accompanying every Seder observance are not only perennial reminders' that Jews date their beginnings from humble origins - We Were Slaves unto Pharaoh in Egypt - but also constitutes the basic elements of Christianity's '"Last Supper" observance where these symbols are interpreted as the body and blood of its Christ.
IN SPITE OF.its great
UJFC Campaign Closes Tonite
Tonight marks the official closing of the 1970 Campaign of the United Jewish Fundand Oouncil. According to SolD. Zell, General Cbairman, Campaign LeadeRship and workers will gather at the JeWish Cent^ at 7:45 pJn. to celebrate the success of the Campaign, and to honor all wdio had a part in it.
All work^s are urged to support, their divisions by helping in the final effort to solicit all prospects and get aU pledges in, so that the projected figures announced tonight will become a. reality, and tiie final results will put the Campaign over the top..
A Campaign Achievement Report will be made by Mr. ZeU, and by the Division Chaimien, as follows: Ad¬ vance Gifts, Ben Gooditian, Trades and Professions, Marvin Frank, Women, Mrs. Marvin L. Glassman, Young Men, N. Victor Goodman, Young Women, Mrs. Charles Sugarman, Junior Division, Miss Joan Goldsmith.
Awards will be .made to outstanding workers in every Division. An- nouncment will be made of 1971 Campaign Leadership, in Divisions where such selection has been made.
Tbe entire coinmunity is cordially invited to attenci the meeting tonight, to help celebrate the 1970 Campaign Achievement, which is tiie
greatest in the history of the United Jewish FHmd and Council.      "
Entertiiinment . by "Sunny" Steinberg, popular folk ^nger, presenting a program of music, has been arranged. Sunny is donating her services to the UJFC for
this celebration, in honor of the successful conclusion of the first Million and One Half Dollar Campaign.
Rabbi David Stavsky, of CongregaUon Beth Jacob, will speak on the current situation of brael, and of the Jews in countries behind the Iron Curtain, focusing at<- tention on the role of the Jewish conununity of the Diaspora in helping his brothers here at home and overseas.
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BONN, (JTA) - East German Foreign Minister Otto Winzer flew to Cairo to confer with Foreign Ministejr Mahmoud Riad and with East German ambassadors and representatives there and in oUier Arab and African states.
Concurrently, East German military experts have begun training Eyptian soldiers and parachutists. Mr. Winzer is accompanied bn his trip bjr experts from the Foreign Ministry's Middle East section.
NEW YORK (WNS) - Fair, a pro-Arab militant organization held, a six-hour sit-in in a Protestant church in New York and then left as members of the Jewish Defense League converged outside and threatened; to ^e^^ the, building, New York police escorted m^^^j;^ of Federated. Americans against Imp^iialjsm and Racisni in the Mideast out of the church to avoid a confrontation between Fair and the JDL.
the Egyptians were dnnming in ttie Red Sea ttie angels began to sing in celebration of the catastrophe. But God silenced the angels with the. words, "My children are dying and you are singing!" In this manner the ancient
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antiquity, originating as it did over three thousand years agoi Passover's message of freedom is a? startUngly new today as it was in the time of the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. Its message is not limited to Jews alone but reaches to all
• creeds and all nations.
The cry "let my people go!" is still heard in many parts of the world, in Soviet Russia and in Arab lands where the descendants of the ancient Egyptian slaves still yearn for freedom, in America where the Negroes are still stivggling to cast off the chains left from the Civil War a century .ago, in South Africa and FUiodesia where the blind arrogance of Apartheid cruelly 'and un-
. justiy separates one people from another, creating a master and. slave en¬ vironment, on the continent of Asia where miUions Uve lives of deprivation and hardship according to whims of dictators of the right or the left.
THE VERY WORD "Pharaoh'' has^ throughout
the-generations, become a symbol of intoloance, greed and darkness, while the Exodus from Egypt has' characterized the struggle for Uberty in land after land throughout the centuries.
In the days of the American Revolution the Continental 'Congress ap¬ pointed a committee con¬ sisting of Tbunas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams to draw up a derign for the seal of the United Stotes, These distinguished founding fathers of the Republic proposed that the seal of our nation shquld be a picture of the crinahg oflhe' Red Sea by the andoit Israelites.
Their recommendation was not aco^ted, but their act reflects thie thinking Ot the American cdaQists in those eighteenth century days who inevitobly coin- pared King George in to the old Pharaoh of the Biid6.
There are two Talmudic legends connected^ with, the Passover stoiy ^MUt shed a great light on our own time. One of them stotes that vriien
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Scout-O-Rama 70 Starts Ti(^tjale
Local area Boy Scouts are getting ready, for the biggest scouting event of theijmiFi- ^POutO-RairiAti "70.
The big Scout Show at tlhe ^ Ohio Exposition Center May 16 and 17 wiU feature scout craft displays and activities. Such things as survival, first aid, outdoor cooking, pioneering, seamanship^ conservation, and many other activities will be featured.
Special exhibits by the law enforcement agencies, local industry, conservation agencies, local personalities and other attractions wUl make tiiis year's Scout Show the b|ggest yet.
-Scouts   are   now   seUing tickets to the show for $1.00 - each. Proceeds go to get better scouting to more boys in Central Ohio.
RabM RiibmtMn
Rabbi Samuel . W. Rubenstem, spiritual leader of t, Agudas Achim CongregaUon, has been appointedj/ by President Bidiard M. VNIxod to be a ddegate to the Intematimial Conference on Public Ediication said Sesskm, to be held bl Geneva, Swit- ^^aiid, during July of 1S70.
CoqgreBsman Siuiiud L. Deme of the 1201 district ot Ohio odnimented on being informed of RalM Ruben-, stein's appqintment as fidlows: "Cbngrattdationson your reco0iitian and I am sure ybu wiU rewlerVgreat service to our country."
' The opening ceremony in the Scout-O-Rama includes the American Flag and Unit Flag of evwy Pack, Ttoop aiid Post participating in the Scout-<>-Raiiia. Soout-O- Rama 70 will be held May, 16 and 17 at Uie Obio Ex¬ position Center. ¦     '^. .
Best Wishes For A Joyous Passover Holiday
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